“Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”
Variant: There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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